Calf Muscle

[fabsec54]

Hi All, any advice gratefully received.

I tore my right calf muscle falling up some stairs about 5 years ago.

Over the past few weeks I have had an ache in the same calf, which seems to be getting worse. I thought I felt something "go" a couple of weeks ago and since then it hasn't felt right at all. It feels very tight and seems to go down my calf into my Achilles/foot. It seems a bit bigger than my left calf, though I'm pretty sure it isn't a DVT as I have injured it previously and I also seem to be getting a lot of cramp in that same calf.

I have been wearing some tubigrip and wondered if this is the right thing to do. Am a bit loathe to go to doctors as seem to be almost living there at the moment!!!!!

Thanks.

[Sqad]

Sounds like a tear of the Plantaris Tendon......Google it and have a read and then get back to us.

Wearing a support such as tubigrip and taking NSAID's e,g Ibuprofen would be a good start to evaluate the response.

[fabsec54]

Thanks Squad.

I think you might be right, though pain starts about half way down the calf and on Google it mentions the knee.

Doesn't help as I walk to and from work and the only way I get relief when walking is by turning my foot outwards.

Will put my tubigrip back on and start the Ibuprofen to see how it goes.


Thanks again.

[Sqad]

No problem....don't forget to let us know.

[wolf63]

I think that it sounds like a tear to your gastrocnemius muscle.

Try Googling gastrocnemius tear and gastrocnemius excercises.

Good luck

[Sqad]

fabsec....wolf has provided the other likely cause.......the treatment is the same.